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SEX/GENDER. Although the terms sex and gender are often used interchangeably, they, in fact, have distinct meanings. Sex is a classification based on biological differences—for example, differences between males and females rooted in their anatomy or physiology.
- Lyla M Hernandez, Dan G Blazer
- 2006
- 2006
- What Is Race?
- Where Does Race Come from?
- What Is ethnicity?
- Where Does Ethnicity Come from?
- What Defines A Person’S Ethnicity
- How to Use Race and Ethnicity
There are many reasons the word race is a heated topic of debate today. One big reason is that, while we popularly use the term to refer to a person’s skin color, the whole idea of defining people that way is a social construct. Formally defined, race is an arbitraryclassification of modern humans, sometimes, especially formerly, based on any or a ...
The word race was first recorded in this form around 1490–1500. English borrowed race from the French race, which derives in turn from the Italian razza, meaning “kind, breed, lineage.” The deeper roots of razza are obscure. The homonym race, in its sense of a “context of speed,” is unrelated, coming from Old Norse. The word race originally functio...
It’s easy to confuse race and ethnicity. Both words are sometimes, but not always, used to describe a person’s heritage as tied to their ancestry or place of origin. Ethnicity, however, is generally used in reference to a person’s cultural markers, not their physical appearance. An ethnicity is a social group that shares a common and distinctive cu...
Compared to race, ethnicity is more recent, dating back to around 1765–75. It’s based on ethnic, itself a much older word found in the 1300s. Via Latin, ethnic ultimately derives from the Greek éthnos, meaning “nation, people.” The earliest use of ethnic in English—it’s worth noting while we’re on the topic of social divisions—was as a noun for a “...
So, what are the shared cultural markers of ethnicity? There are many, and often exist in combination. Here are some of the main ones: 1. Language. Ethnicityis often tied to the language someone speaks, such as Spanish, thereby representing a shared cultural history among those who also speak the language. 2. Nationality. It is also connected to on...
So, is there a difference between race and ethnicity? The short answer? Yes, but it’s very complicated. Use of the words overlap and are very historical and often personal. But very generally speaking, the word race involves shared physical characteristics, especially skin color, and a shared ancestry or historical experience based on that, whereas...
These terms were initially separated to designate “race” as a biological quality and “ethnicity” as a cultural phenomenon. This distinction mirrors efforts to distinguish sex and gender. Unlike “sex” and “gender,” however, there is little agreement on core distinctions between race and ethnicity.
Race and ethnicity. Race refers to the social construction and categorization of people based on perceived shared physical traits that result in the maintenance of a sociopolitical hierarchy. The term is also loosely applied to geographic, cultural, religious, or national groups. Self-reported race frequently varies owing to changing social ...
24. Mai 2021 · This Q&A examines the links between gender and health, highlighting WHO’s ongoing work to address gender-related barriers to healthcare, advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity, and achieve health for all.
- Gender refers to socially constructed characteristics of women and men – such as norms, roles and relations of and between groups of women and men...
- Gender interacts with but is different from sex. The two terms are distinct and should not be used interchangeably. It can be helpful to think of s...
- Gender identity refers to a person’s innate, deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to the perso...
- Sex and gender interact in complex ways to affect health outcomes. Sex can affect disease risk, progression and outcomes through genetic (e.g. func...
- Gender has implications for health across the course of every person’s life. Gender can influence a person’s experiences of crises and emergency si...
- “Intersectionality” builds on, and extends, the understanding of how gender power dynamics interact with other power hierarchies of privilege or di...
- Harmful gender norms – including those related to rigid notions of masculinity – affect the health and well-being of boys and men. For example, not...
- Gender mainstreaming is the process of assessing the implications for women, men and gender diverse people of any planned action within a health sy...
- Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and all 17 Sustainable Developme...
Abstract. This study employed an intersectional approach (operationalized as the combination of more than one social identity) to examine the relationship between aspects of social identity (i.e., race, gender, age, SES), self-reported level of mistreatment, and attributions for discrimination.
22. Feb. 2019 · The United States government recognizes distinctions between the concept of race and ethnicity, and sorts individuals as White, Black or African American, Asian, American...
